Word: powder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...down and eat a half-gallon of ice cream in front of him," Janice recalls. The pounds piled on, and soon she was much heavier than when she had started dieting. Like some anorectics, Janice then started trying to make herself throw up after food binges. "I drank mustard powder mixed with water because it burns your stomach," she remembers, adding, "Now just the thought of mustard makes me sick," Janice also experimented with laxatives but developed an allergy to the ingredients which left her skin red and blotchy...
...m.p.h., many of the cigarette boats are outfitted with such sophisticated equipment as radar scanners and infra-red night-vision scopes. Cocaine, however, is usually flown into the U.S. by airplane. Customs officials estimate that some 80 planes secretly land in the U.S. every night carrying cargos of white powder, most of them landing in South Florida...
...Djibouti or Jakarta at a moments notice, spewing out words along the way like "henbane," "anchor," "parlous," "jardiniere" as well as an occasional "zounds" or "sweet-patootie". A cultural sponge that oozes erudition and arcana, he recalls Yeats in the same breath that he expounds on an ancient tooth powder advertisement. No matter what guise he shows up in, Perelman's persona is a curious mixture of gallic pride, English cynicism, and mostly, Yiddish fatalism. He is a foil who ventures quixotically into the world and then returns, each time, to testify that it is far more looney than...
...fighting chance against George Washington. Concerned in 1981 about security for Washington's 39th successor to the presidency, the prudent but unromantic federal agents forced the play-acting colonial troops to surrender all but a few of their 50 cannons, temporarily confiscated their flints and black powder and subjected each make-believe soldier to a metal detector's scan. No matter: the glory of re-created victory was undimmed. Over the sunny Virginia meadows marched 2,200 ersatz Revolutionaries. There were French infantry of the Royal Deux-Ponts Regiment in their gleaming white uniforms; authentically ragtag colonials, including...
...armament stories during the past five years that she admits, "My dreams are invaded by visions of AK-47 rifles and rocket launchers." Associate Editor Walter Isaacson, who wrote the cover, concluded after assessing the thousands of words filed by TIME correspondents: "The arms trade has created a global powder...